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Links List 6.13.08

2008-06-13 13:01:36 by Julia Lim in ScienceLogic
 
...Nicholas exploits , and now I think I should have been. Not only did this bad boy add a fictional $2.2 billion worth of revenue to his companys bottom line, a second indictment also charges him with a slew of stuff including spiking customer and employee drinks with ecstasy and other drug-related charges. The best one: during a trip to Vegas...
 
Tags: application performance management, performance management, actionable business intelligence, data, transform huge amounts, companys bottom line, quick overview, vmtn blog, agree
 
 
 
 
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Utility { Computing, Storage, Services } Considered Helpful

2006-07-20 21:38:53 by Liudvikas Bukys in Liudvikas Bukys
 
Nicholas Carr and Om Malik find on-demand infrastructure and utility storage (e.g. Amazon S3) particularly attractive to startups Jon Udell continues to look at various ways of interconnecting users, applications, and back-ends only some of which have been explored yet I particularly like the idea of (having the option for) the user being in...
 
Tags: replace application components, jon udell continues, on-demand infrastructure, application vendor, back-end repositories, utility storage, nicholas carr, mercy, necessarily
 
 
 
 
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How the MPAA Might Enforce Copyright on the Internet

2008-02-11 13:24:03 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Nicholas Weaver: All that is necessary is that the MPAA or their contractor automatically spiders for torrents. When it finds torrents, it connects to each torrent with manipulated clients. The client would first transfer enough content to verify copyright, and then attempt to map the participants in the Torrent Now the MPAA has a "map" of...
 
Tags: mpaa, torrent, isp, map, current graph, graph, network, copyright, participants
 
 
 
 
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My kids get XO's, I go to the command line

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2008-03-23 01:30:39 by HASH0x8aed260 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...Nicholas Negroponte's MIT lab to bring a $100 dollar laptop to children the world over. While they have not quite hit the $100 dollar cost, they are under $200. The laptop's are called XO laptops The laptops use low power, are extremely rugged and kid friendly and run Linux. The interface is called Sugar and is very different than a Windows...
 
Tags: webkinz world, world, files, grep files, webkinz, flash files, webkinz site, store files, chat pretty quickly
 
 
 
 
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TOP 10 - Hacks, more hacks, Ballmer on Yahoo, OLPC woes

2008-04-25 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b17a90 in Network World on Security
 
...Nicholas Negroponte vexed open-source developers with his push to make the XO laptop interface Windows-compatible and a federal court said it's OK for customs agents to spark up our laptops and look over the contents, just because they can
 
Tags: nasty javascript attacks, cnn site, sports page, yahoo, steve ballmer, security officials, customs agents, laptop interface, computer systems
 
 
 
 
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Its about the kids, stupid

2008-05-08 15:52:44 by HASH0x8b658bc in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...Nicholas Negroponte is making by embracing Windows for the OLPC laptop project. Matt points to Groklaw, Richard Stallman and the rest of the Redmond revolutionaries who want to see Negroponte tarred and feathered and question his vision. Hey, lets face it the "m" word is toxic to that crowd. But I really think Matt is just plain twisted about...
 
Tags: olpc, olpc laptop project, kids, matt, ultimately matt, olpc laptops, matt waxes poetic, laptops, olpc project
 
 
 
 
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Personal Internet Security: follow-up report

2008-07-08 13:05:04 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...Nicholas Bohm, through to the Metropolitan Police and Symantec are well worth reading to understand more about a complex problem, yet one where were beginning to see the first glimmers of consensus as to how best to move forward
 
Tags: report, committees report, initial report, short report, internet, committees follow-up report, personal internet security, technology committee, banks
 
 
 
 
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This week in history - volcanos, hurricanes, and the risk of Black Swans

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2008-08-28 11:07:47 by Chris McClean in Security & Risk Management
...Nicholas Taleb , which argues that these kinds of unpredictable, outlying occurrences are the ones that really shape businesses, countries, economies, and people. Taleb argues that although these Black Swan events are almost completely unforeseeable, we mistakenly try to explain the circumstances at the time and make predictions about similar...
 
Tags: similar events, events, black swan events, black swan, plan, crisis management plan, week, colleague stephanie balaouras, argues
 
 
 
 
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Taleb on the Limitations of Risk Management

2008-10-03 07:48:41 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Nicholas Taleb: Because then you get a Maginot Line problem. [After World War I, the French erected concrete fortifications to prevent Germany from invading again -- a response to the previous war, which proved ineffective for the next one.] You know, they make sure they solve that particular problem, the Germans will not invade from here....
 
Tags: risk, risk management, scenario, people, people worse, concrete fortifications, maginot line, illusion, social security
 
 
 
 
 
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